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What does plum mean?

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Noun
  1. The edible, fleshy stone fruit of Prunus domestica, often of a dark red or purple colour.
  2. The stone-fruit tree which bears this fruit, Prunus domestica.
  3. A dark bluish-red color/colour, the colour of some plums.
  4. A desirable thing.
  5. (archaic) A handsome fortune or property; formerly, in cant language, the sum of £100,000 sterling, or a person possessing it.
  6. (dated) A good or choice thing of its kind, as among appointments, positions, parts of a book, etc.
  7. A raisin, when used in a pudding or cake.
  8. (pejorative) A fool, idiot.
  9. The edible, fleshy stone fruit of several species sharing Prunus subg. Prunus with Prunus domestica including, among others:
    1. Prunus sect. Prunus
    2. Prunus sect. Prunocerasus North American plums
    3. Prunus sect. Armeniaca (better known as apricots)
  10. The stone-fruit trees which bear these fruits.
  11. The fruits of many unrelated trees and shrubs with fruit perceived to resemble plums
  12. The trees and shrubs bearing those fruits
Adjective
  1. (comparable) Of a dark bluish-red colour.
  2. (not comparable) Choice; especially lavish or preferred.
Adjective
Adverb
Verb
  1. (mining) To plumb.
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